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E-Learning Challenge #61: Challenge | Recap
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Over the years, community members have shared hundreds of tips, insights, and best practices for freelance course designers. Below are some of the more popular discussions in the forums.
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E-Learning Portfolios
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Career Goals
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Working with clients
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Pricing and quoting projects
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Finding work and getting clients
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Proposals, Contracts and Documentation
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Challenge of the week
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This week your challenge is to design a poster around your favorite freelancing tip for course designers.
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This week's challenge is similar to the instructional design tips challenge.
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Instructional Design Tips That Really Pop
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The poster or infographic design makes it easy to share your freelance tips with the e-learning community.
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Feel free to share a single tip or a top 10 list of times. It’s up to you what you share so have fun with it!
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Share your e-learning work
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\n- Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
\n- Forums: Start your own thread and share a link to your published example..
\n- Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
\n- Twitter: If you share your demos on Twitter, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.
\n- Facebook: Share your work on our Facebook page by replying to this Facebook post with a link to your example.
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Last week’s e-learning challenge:
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Using Progress Meters in E-Learning: Challenge | Recap
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Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!
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New to the e-learning challenges?
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The weekly challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.
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If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
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If you share your demos on Twitter, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.
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